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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

证实

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zhèngshí

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Corroborate/kəˈrɒb.ə.reɪt/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"证人能够证实被告的辩解。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To confirm or give support to a statement, theory, or finding.

    "The witness was able to corroborate the defendant's alibi."
  2. 2

    To provide additional evidence or information that supports a claim.

    "The scientist's research corroborated the initial findings of the study."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin past participle 'corroboratus', formed from the prefix 'com-' (expressing intensive force) and 'roborare' (to strengthen, from 'robur', meaning strength or oak). Entering English in the late 16th century, it initially meant to strengthen physically or legally, but progressively evolved to denote confirming or supporting statements, theories, or stories with additional evidence.

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